Re: Maybe it was just one impact
Nah it's the public "health" budget cuts (coupled to salary increases for state employees to give full-spectrum austerity) and companies buying up all the lithium for batteries...
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You can get to photosynthesis, but Mars is smaller and colder, so the laboratory needs more time.
Now, if Pluto rammed Mars, wouldn't that have zeroed the surface of the whole ball and be evident??
It is not difficult to distinguish between relative share and absolute units sold.
Try to keep up!
iFonnery seems to be stuck at 20% of the total market. So it shall be.
1) There is only one "MIT license". There is no "X11 license". Look it up. Wait, I 'll do it for you: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
2) No licence guards against patents. Work on your IP basics.
3) GPL a "better choice"? Opinions, my dear. Which GPL, btw? 2 or 3? Or maybe LGPL?
4) Thank you for the attempt at complexifferoizing the IP horror.
> If this was a professional company he'd have been fired by now (and rightly so).
LOLNO.
There are worse things going on at "professional" companies than shouting. Then the people responsible get promoted out of trouble.
I have found that shouting may help get the stream lined right, until the manager comes in and tells one that one has to be "careful" lest the programmer who just wrecked the source tree "leave us".
Seriously, have you ever had a job?
You seem to be complaining about Security clampdowns (that have not been taken in discussion with management), not about IT as such.
Maybe the fault is with management, not with IT? Maybe one wanted to prevent the fail train to stop at the door of IT while the other people where not taking responsibilites and were out golfing?
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sweating-towel-guy
...and, giving the Prez of the Diposition Matrix the peace prize "hasty and ill-conceived"? Falling-down-stairs retarded while Orwell looks on, rather.
Oh well, Kissinger got one, too.
Now take a deep breath, put down Ayn Rand for a second and think about what is happening here.
A) Something happens, there is a backdrop, which El Reg does not explain.
B) Cogent: Upgrade your interconnects! (This presumably means more money to Cogent)
C) ISP: No, we won't (They leave their customers with sucky service but need to pay less to Cogent)
D) Cogent: Then we will have to drop traffic, idiots!!
E) I don't know what...
F) ATLAS SHRUGS!!!111!!
But these are all interpretations with perfect hindsight.
When looking into the future, things are not at all clear and clear-cut.
Several engineers will queue at the door and say that there is a problem with this and that.
Sure there is. But what do? Maybe make a bad call. Maybe launch the Shuttle. Maybe leave it on pad. Maybe fix this nagging problem with the foam coming off. Maybe not. Maybe the risk analysis is good and you will just be unlucky.
If things go wrong, finger-pointing and the blame game will start. Then the prepared engineer has a copy of his "letter to management" in the drawer that he wrote two years ago...
Bullshit. Are you implying your Graupner model stuff LiPo shit is the the same as the one in planes? Next you will be telling me that avionics is built on Windows.
> disinclined to do too many safety studies
Evil capitalists p0wning you? More like consumers want these, and it works quite well (people are not blowing up right and left and even state regulators don't complain too much) so it's on the market. Or are you seriously implying that you prefer to carry a Vietnam-era lead-acid backpack for your laptop?
The oft-repeated claim that Snowden's intent is to harm the US is completely negated by the reality that he has all sorts of documents that could quickly and seriously harm the US if disclosed, yet he has published none of those. When he gave us the documents he provided, he repeatedly insisted that we exercise rigorous journalistic judgment in deciding which documents should be published in the public interest and which ones should be concealed on the ground that the harm of publication outweighs the public value. If his intent were to harm the US, he could have sold all the documents he had for a great deal of money, or indiscriminately published them, or passed them to a foreign adversary. He did none of that.
He carefully vetted every document he gave us, and then on top of that, asked that we only publish those which ought to be disclosed and would not cause gratuitous harm: the same analytical judgment that all media outlets and whistleblowers make all the time. The overwhelming majority of his disclosures were to blow the whistle on US government deceit and radical, hidden domestic surveillance.
My point in this interview was clear, one I've repeated over and over: had he wanted to harm the US government, he easily could have, but hasn't, as evidenced by the fact that - as I said - he has all sorts of documents that could inflict serious harm to the US government's programs. That demonstrates how irrational is the claim that his intent is to harm the US. His intent is to shine a light on these programs so they can be democratically debated. That's why none of the disclosures we've published can be remotely described as harming US national security: all they've harmed are the reputation and credibility of US officials who did these things and then lied about them.
For those who say that they wish there was more attention paid to the substance of the NSA stories than Snowden: here is the list of the NSA revelations we've published over the last month. Feel free to focus on them any time.
That's the problem with craptops: just barely compatible and with a slightly modified graphics/network/whatever chipset to stay within an energy envelope of shave off a few dollars per unit (Windows-only special sauce drivers thrown in, upgrades downloadable from the manufacturer's website using the manufacturer's special install program -- if titsup events don't occur, ain't it Fujitsu-Siemens?) ...